Have you ever been possessed to where you can't sleep till you wright a modern answer back to an Italian wwII protest song that has been popularized by a man singing it in COD?
PSSH. Definitely not me
Just kidding...i present: Bello Ciao (think of this ciao meaning hi)
I just visited the Tumblr page of Marissa Lenti/VixenVTuber, Gangle's VA, and I hear that people are being mean to them? Because they ship Jax and Gangle together???
...
FUCK.
THEM.
BULLIES. >:(
Seriously, this is not an exaggeration--literally, Vixen themselves said that they got tagged on a TikTok and was told to die.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!!!
I am so upset right now. I feel so much anger from the idea of people bullying an actor I love just because they adamantly support an unpopular ship.
And yes, I get it. Ribbun is probably the most vocally-despised ship in the fandom right now because of the bullying dynamics between Jax and Gangle. But like I said a bunch of times before, just because a ship is "toxic" doesn't always make it "bad"! It's not a moral failing to like a ship if it's interesting to you! Vixen themselves put it best here:
š¬ 13Ā Ā š 97Ā Ā ā¤ļø 602Ā Ā·Ā vixen is literally the realest fuckin bitch out there im gonna throw up
As for my own relation to the Ribbun ship, I used to be kind of mixed on it because of Jax's bullying of Gangle. But Vixen's unwavering love for it intrigued me, and the words of wisdom above influenced me into doing a ship study, and now, I feel a lot more positive about Ribbun.
LEAVE THE RIBBUN COMMUNITY ALONE!
The shippers I've seen, Vixen included, are pretty chill and hold no ill will towards Zooble or Abstragedy, the "preferred" Gangle ship. They haven't done anything to you, why do you feel the need to go on a "purist crusade" at their expense?!
LEAVE VIXEN ALONE!
They're a sweet VA who just wants to have fun with the ships they love, so why the fuck do you feel the need to rain on their parade?! Especially worse because it's killing their motivation to create their own Ribbun fan projects.
Yeah. Cyberbullying is a serious thing. Even people of significance, not unlike Vixen, experience it.
...
*sigh*
This whole thing sucks. No one should have to be a target of vitriol just for liking a ship.
I'm sorry for this angry post, but I do have to talk about something serious that's affecting an actor I look up to.
And even if Ribbun is a toxic ship, I have nothing but respect for Vixen for adamantly supporting it, even as more and more people are decrying it in light of these recent episodes.
You don't like Ribbun? That's okay, we can agree to disagree.
But don't you dare bully the people who do unironically support Ribbun.
It's annoying because a lot of people don't even ship them as toxic (and if they do, it's not even bad), and then these types of people send deaththreats to people who support it! It's BS! Let people enjoy their ships! We aren't going around saying 'Ohhhh funnybunny sucks!!' or 'Abstragedy is so stupid!!!', let alone threatening them. Over a ship. A ship in a *FICTIONAL* show.
I have lost hope for some of the people in this community, and it ticks me off that people like this ruin other's day by doing things like this.
Let us enjoy our ships. Or, better yet, let EVERYBODY enjoy their OWN ships.
This is terrible. It's unbelievable how much people hate Marissa just for liking a ship of a FICTIONAL SHOW
All this hate is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Vixen didn't do anything wrong; she literally just likes a ship, and the community of Ribbun isn't even toxicāin fact, it's one of the most calm ones that I've seen.
I'm disgusted by how people can be so FUCKING STUPID and disrespectful that they think they have the right to vent their identity crisis with hateful words towards someone that did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to you!!!
WE'RE NOT FORCING YOU TO LIKE THE SHIP, WE'RE ASKING FOR RESPECT (FOR VIXEN AND FOR THE COMUNNITY OF RIBBUN) WHICH THEY SHOULD ALREADY SHOW WITHOUT BEING ASKED FOR!!!
I'd like to say much more, but I hope we've made ourselves clear what we're trying to ask; it's something so fucking simple, dude....
We want respect...
If Marissa see this, please don't cancel your projects because of stupid people, i want you to know that we support you in everything and you shouldn't change your mind because of random people who clearly have fucking rotten brains.
This sadly isn't the first time people have been harassed because of ships. As an older shipper, this is why we say shipping culture is toxic.
It never should be but people will always go to an extreme of defending /going against a ship..for whwt/why? Because only there opinions matter about a ship and only they can have the true say what goes?!
Let people have fun. That is all ships are. We have have a term for ships that are so out of pocket that they would ever actually get together. (Ex: jack frost from rise of the guardian and hiccup from how to train your dragon(DONT ASK))
ANYWAY, next time you see a ship that may not be for you just think of it as a crack ship and move along with your life.
When I was a little kid, if I needed a nap, my parents would try and find ways to discreetly or sneakily immobilize me for about 5 minutes, since I am like a shark and if I stop moving long enough I will fall asleep. They told my wife about this a few years ago and now she uses my dadās favorite strategy of getting my to sleep. My dadās approach to immobilizing me was to ask for snuggles for a few minutes so HE could go to sleep. As a kid my dad liked napping about as much as he liked unanesthetized dental work but I was such a daddyās girl that I couldnāt say ānoā to a request for snuggles. He always framed it as āIām just so tired and need some snuggles to fall asleep, can you snuggle me?ā And Iād be like āaww, I love you, of course I can snuggle you while you fall asleep!ā and Iād wake up 2 hours later all well-rested and confused because I wasnāt tiredddd
And now anytime my wife thinks Iām fighting the urge to nap, or thinks I am sleep deprived and cranky, sheāll ask if I can be the little spoon for her so she can sleep. And every time she asks, I say āaww, I love you, of course I can snuggle you while you fall asleep!ā and I wake up two hours later all well-rested and confused because I wasnāt tireddddd.
This was a technique my father pioneered when I was about 3-4 years old and implemented with me at least once a week, and now at almost 31-years-old it still works just as good and I still never see it coming.
guess who i'm dressing up as for purim, challenge level: impossible
i love Jane "Ride the Cyclone" Doe guys i can't help it. turns out i can sing her song pretty well too! i recorded a cover and all that. So while im waiting for the wig to arrive in the mail, a fanart was necessary. i'm begging you, tap for better quality. my children are starving.
bonus fanart i drew some time ago that i felt wasn't good enough (and inspired me to draw this) under the cut
People keep saying thereās a ceasefire but every single day we wake up to another explosion, another family destroyed, another name added to the list of martyrs. Iām writing this because the world thinks Gaza is ācalmā now.
Itās not. The bombs didnāt stop. The drones didnāt stop. The funerals didnāt stop.
During this so-called ceasefire, dozens of people were killed. Homes were burned. Children were pulled from under the rubble. Youāll see the photos Iām adding below - all taken during the āpauseā. This is what our reality looks like.
My own family is suffering too. We lost relatives. We lost our home.
312 Palestinians have been killed, entire families wiped out during a time that was supposed to bring safety.!
Here is the donation link for my familyās emergency fund:
To be totally fair to Willy Wonka, at least a couple of those candy factory casualties involved kids deliberately circumventing reasonable safeguards, sometimes aided and abetted by the parents who were supposed to be supervising them. What happened is at most 60% his fault.
It will forever be funny how magicians bait you with a start of like. A privileged typical magical school and you go meh and then thereāre like. Small things you keep finding creepy but go meh maybe its just oh so special. Quentin talking about his depression and knowing exactly from which roof to jump to not survive, Julia using her ring to gash open her arm so she wouldnāt forget about magic, beast appearing and burning deanās eyes, aliceās brother who used too much magic and burned into a wild and cruel spirit. All weird and kinda disturbing but its mixed with so much humour and dumb privileged college kids on weed you kinda ignore the implications of how fucked up magic is
And then it all comes to a head when youre forced to mentally confront the fact that the beast, the main villain, a man whoās face is always obstructed by flies, who has been killing you and your friends for 44 time loops, is a hero of your childhood books which saved you from suicide. Books which were written by a man who sexually abused this boy for years which is why now heās trying to destroy everything and be the only one left. Like what the actual fuck. And to drive the point home it deals with pregnancy as a result of SA and they go robbing a bank to afford it. This show pick you up by the scruff and takes you on a rollercoaster and shows you that magic comes from pain. That there is no talent, that the strongest mages are those who donāt stop. And then it takes your hand again and shows you that life is still beautiful even with all the horror. That there is hope and love and sometimes love is also hideous and evil and cruel but thatās okay. There might not be a happy ending but love was there. You did it because you loved and because you did something to change the world for the better and even if it turned completely wrong the sentiment was there. You existed and you mattered and maybe thatās enough
